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Productive day today, built up a rat beater for my mate. He needs to lock it around Carnaby St all day and late night as he's a bar manager so it couldn't be too nice. Picked up frame from the very helpful @boydsbikes and built it today. Total spent was £30 plus parts from my parts bin.

A slight crown race issue - I had a 27mm and it needed a 26.4 so the guys at Pedal Peddler just gave me one. Nice dudes!

Ok so it's not the prettiest thing, but it works, isn't heavy at all and the frame actually has nice details of cut out lugs and cut outs on the bb shell. Bad photo time:

Me pal @darlojim sorted out some new decals for the genesis. The blue is 3m so highly reflective, great for commuting/riding in the dark especially on roundabouts.

Been doing quite a bit off the beaten track on it, heading through the local woods/down the canal instead of just sticking to the roads. The brakes really inspire confidence off road, overall absolutely loving it.

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^that's hot and how did you find 3 coulours CK headset ?
I'm sure that you enjoy it !
What are the bottles cages ?
Is the bike finished ?

am unaware how to do that

On Windows, Character Map charmap.exe

On a Mac, Keyboard Viewer

On anything, try to find out how to insert Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks

On android, long press the letter should show all the variants.

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Thank you Gaston. Red white and bleu is a colour option, like the the rasta one.

The cages are blackburn chicane stainless, reduced on ribble at the moment. They didn't pair well with elite bottles but with the camelbak bottles they perfectly and securely, like they are made for each other.

The bike is a lot of fun, a bit heavy on the road but comes alive off road. At the moment still recovering from a broken foot but getting the miles in now in preparation for touring at the end of summer.

The only possible changes are the bar tape which is a bit hard, I may try some different tyres by can't decide whether to go "semi slick" for compromise.

Also this rack was exactly what I wanted in terms of shape and features, but it's very flexy (alu as well) and I'm concerned for it's durability going touring, so may get one of those mini porteur stainless racks that @spotter has mentions.

thanks, needed in my life also
lost my spell check somehow and as a bit dsylexic is a fucker as have to be on point to check meself , got any web wizardy/spells/potions re how to re instate that on windows?

lost my spell check somehow...how to re instate that on windows?

Spell checking is an application function, is it your browser spell check which has gone missing?

i fink so wiseman

If so, which browser?

firefox mate, don't hold truck with the google/cia one
i looked for add on's , will probably sort it somehow

In FF, go to about:preferences#advanced (just paste that into the address bar) and on the general tab there's a tick box for "Check my spelling as I type". I think there's also a keyboard sequence which will have the effect of toggling the spell checker, so you may have inadvertently turned it off when you were pounding the keyboard in the porn thread the other day.

New wheels and tyres for the Look

add that to the list of one's i owe you, many thanks and
Jah Love x

Beater / pub thing, that I don't need but putting together anyway..

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Nice collection!

Nice propeller

!!!!!!!!!

@TM What's the overall weight mate?

Haven't weighed it, not sure it's a concern with a bike like this? It certainly isn't light... I'm guessing about 12kg with rack.

This is gunna be so sick

Dibz those forks if plans change!